Patrick Joseph Kelly

Patrick Joseph Kelly (19 March 1957-8 May 1987) was an IRA leader who led the East Tyrone Brigade during The Troubles. He was killed during an ambush of the British Special Air Service at Loughgall in County Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1987.

Biography
Patrick Joseph Kelly was born on 19 March 1957 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland to an Irish Catholic family. His family supported the idea of a united Ireland, and Kelly joined the Irish Republican Army at the start of the 1970s. In 1985, he became the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade, the most active unit of the IRA, and he led the brigade in ambushes against the Royal Ulster Constabulary. On 8 May 1987, he led the IRA in the ambush of a Special Air Service unit in Loughgall, County Armagh, but he was killed alongside eight other IRA members in the greatest loss of life for the IRA in a single incident during The Troubles.